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The young labourers over a great part of the south and east, at least of England though never so well off, for several generations, as they are now are growing up thriftless, shiftless; inferior, it seems to me, to their grandfathers in everything, save that they can usually read and write, and their grandfathers could not; and that they wear smart cheap cloth clothes, instead of their grandfathers' smock-frocks.
But in addition to this, the private soldier would rather that his comrades did not know that he was saving money; for the thriftless soldier, like the thriftless workman, when he has spent everything of his own, is very apt to set up a kind of right to borrow from the fund of his more thrifty comrade.
If he took this course, it is probable that most of them would spend all in thriftless waste and indolence, or in mere physical enjoyments.
"The cry of the children" was rising up to heaven, not from the factory only, but from the underground darkness of the mine, where a system of pitiless infant slavery prevailed, side by side with the employment of women as beasts of burden, "in an atmosphere of filth and profligacy." The condition of too many toilers was rendered more hopeless by the thriftless follies born of ignorance.
He was a thriftless fellow at best, and never could more than keep his head out of water. His debts will swallow up every thing, of course, saving my commissions, which I would gladly throw in to be rid of this business." With this, Jasper tossed the papers into his desk, and, taking up his hat, said to his clerk "You may shut the store, Edward.
'How many good people there are in the world! I said, half aloud; but I almost jumped out of my chair at the sound of a deep, angry voice on the other side of the door. 'It is a thriftless, wasteful sort of thing burning the candle at both ends. Women have very little common sense, after all. I extinguished the lamp hastily, for of course Mr.
The Hamilton boys were no doubt as extravagant and thriftless as they were insane, but the Careys sympathized with their extravagance and thriftlessness and insanity so heartily, in this particular, that they could hardly conceal their real feelings from Bill Harmon.
It was a baseless fiat for which there was no legal or moral justification as arrogant a presumption as could be claimed of any edict of a Kaiser. The Buchers asserted that the Doctrine was a crime against humanity. It had kept, for a hundred years, South America and Central America indifferently civilized, miserably governed, their thin populations uneducated, thriftless, superstitious, bigoted.
They thrust the thought of it from them. Our wealthy class has no social consciousness. Take my father. He thinks the submerged are lost because they are thriftless and that all would be right if they wouldn't drink. To him they are just a waste product of civilization. "But can you study the life of the people without growing discontented with the life you must lead?"
You must remember that she idolised Eric, that she was blind to many of his faults; she made excuses for him whenever it was possible to do so, but with all her weak partiality she could not deny that he was thriftless, idle, and extravagant, that he defied his brother's authority, that he even forgot himself so far as to use bad language in his presence.
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